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ROM THE ATTACKS OF HIS. ENEMIES; 


MADE IN THE TEXAS LEGISLATORS, 


APRIL 8th 1861. 


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Gen. A. B. Norton :— 

Sia: The undersigned, having been as.«o 
dated with you in the State Legislature, and 
believing you to be true to our rights, and be 
ing desirous that the people of the State may 
know your position, we respectfully request 
that you will furnish for pub'icafion your re 
marks made in the House on the 8th iust. 

Austin, April 9 th 1861. 

Geo. McK night, Wm. Smith, 


A. M. M. Up- haw, 
W. M. Owen, 

J. W. Davis, 

Em fry Rains,* 

K. Bryan, • 

T, H. Mdndine/ 

S. J. Redgate, 

J. E. Henry/ 

B. H. Epperson, 


W. M. Bryce, 

J. Lewter, 

A. F. Crawford/ 

B. F. Ross, 

Joel Robinson, 

M. L. Armstrong, , 
Geo. W. Whitmore, 
W. E. Middleton* 

F. Wrede, 



James H. Duncan' A. C. Hyde, 

* 

Thos. Lewellyn' N. H. Darnell, 

H. P. Mabry, H H. Edwards, 

J. L. Haynes/ J. W. Throckmorton, 
D. M. Whaley, J. W. C add ell, & others 


AUSTIN, April, 1861, 

Gentlemen : 

In response to your kind favor, I furnish 
1 erewith a copy of my remarks, believing it 
due to my friends and associates that the truth 
should be known, and a foul calumny thereby 
dispelled, 

“There are many devils that walk thi 3 world 
Devils great and devils small, 

Devils with tails and devils without;” 

Devils who whisper, devils who shout, 

Devils who mystify, devils who teach ; 

But the Calumny Devil —as hard to reach 
As the snail, who, now safe and on some 
distant beach, 

Is digesting the core of my favorite peach, 

Is the shabbiest devil of them all! 
Thankful for your good opinion and friend¬ 
ship. which I prize, and with well wishes for 
your prosperity, I am, respectfully, • 

Yours, &e., 


A. B. NORTON. 


Meesrs, • icKnight, 
Ms id. Smith, 

W. B. Middlrt 
A. G. Hyde, 

F. Wrede, 

N. H. Darnell, 



































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Mr. Speaker — 1 rise, to a question jo f 
personal privilege. For the first time in iny 
life; and greatly to my aversion, 1 am compelled 
to trouble a public body with ray persona' 
grievance, and to ask, for what I may sav, the 
Vvipdidjconsideration of those who hear rue — 
This, sir, 1 low do because this question of 
personal privilege upon which I am about.to 
spuair, concerns not myself individually alone 
butaT^’is of importance to yourselves, ray 
associates in the Legislature, and all those who 
may have been socially or otherwise connected 
with me. I hold in my band, various papers, 
containing charges eta very grave and serious 
character—some making the direct allegations 
—others doing the thing more covertly and 
slilv, by insinuation ana innuendo, all aimed 
directly at the-same object and endeavoring to 
accomplish my overthrow and ruin. 

To these, one and all, I shall reply in gene- 
# rai terms, and squill ei deavor to occupy as brief 
i time as possible, as I would not now need¬ 
lessly encroach upon the business of this Le¬ 
gislature. 

1 hold in my hand, sir, copies of the Marshal^ 
Jlrpublican, Dallas Herald, Belton Democrat, 

: t Sentinel, Tyler Reporter, Jefferson Her yd. and 
(dazet'e, J ffersonian, Enquirer , }Iov>' t , T an q va> 
nous other papers published in afferent points 
in this State and outside ol^ which have in 
one torm and another utterance to f&ls** 

••barges against m ^ which have been reitera 
t- 0 ' m cr -4ftTnns of the city papers, and ti- 
naiiy iheir appearance in the official or- 
g' a < of the LegLlature and the Convention.— 
the Stale Gazette. And having assumed this 
semi-official form, I am constrained to notice 
in rny official position attacks from persons to 
whom 1 would otherwise give as wide a char¬ 
ter as the wind to olovv on me when it listeth, 
preferring their ribald abuse and denunciation 
to their praise. 

The papers, sir, contain the charge and alle¬ 
gation, that you have in your body an aboli¬ 
tionist: and that the representative who now 
addresses you is that man. If this charge he 
true, have you not for months and years quietly 
rad tacitly permitted an enemy of the South, 
ind one seeking to destroy the institutions oi 
,our country, to hold a seat upon this floor in 
violation of the oath which yourselves as well 
as himself have taken to support ? Have you 
iot thereby proven recreant to your trust? 
Hare you not suffered a stigma to be placed 
upon the fair escutcheon of Texas? And will 
you not justly be condemned by your consti¬ 
tuency and the entire people of the South ? 

This, sir, is the view I take of the subject 
send it is because, uader the circumstances 1 
deem it a matter of duty, that J shall in a few 


words meet this cowardly and infamous slan¬ 
der, in order, that I may stand “ rectus in 
curia,” in the 1 estimation of those with whom 
I have been pleasantly and agreeably associa¬ 
ted in this Legislature, ami who T have been 
proud to call my friends ; not withstanding that 
upon many grave questions which have occu¬ 
pied our attention, we have widely u.tiered. 
but as gentlemen always, each having for the 
other proper respect and esteem. 

To the charge ofAbolitionism,” and of 
having been of such sentiments in this 
or elsewhere, I will cheerfully refer + <0 
who have had opportunities of (mowing m\ 
true sentiments, in all the ^oedoni of social 
and private intercourse ^ > ve i[ ;l3 the most 
violent ot my polecat opponents in the past. 

I stand th^., gir, among my peers, and 
in the ry^ence of Almighty God, the searcher 
of ail heart-, to whesn 1 shall in time coming 
be -duly accountable, and pronounce the charge- 
false and slanderous. I challenge scrutiny 
I defy investigation. 

Briefly, 1 will refer to ray past course. * 
first entered into political lifu in the stormy 
and trying times of 1810, as l )ne o: 

the electors toi WiidaTJ ^.enry Harrison, the 
true- hearted son o> immortal old Ben, who, 
•with John uay CO ck and Thomas Jefferson, 
signed tb? 3 declaration of American Indepen¬ 
dence. I with “ fervency and zeal ” supported 
that man who, in 1S10, as a member of Con¬ 
gress voted against restric.'inq Missouri in her 
Constitutional rights , and w-s one of those 
members from noa-slaveholdiug states, who 
voted in favor of Missouri coming into the 
Union upon the same terms as other States, and 
Wts of the Ab lit ion i.sts to d - 
price her of the right to recognise slavery in her 
Constitution, and for this exalted self devotion, he 
was turned out of office, thus sacrificing him¬ 
self upon the altar of Southern rights :—,for 
that man who declared in his speech in Che¬ 
viot, Ohio, in 1633, that “the discussion of the 
subject of emancipation in the non-slaveholding 
states, is equally injurious to the slaves and 
their masters, and has no sanction in the 
Principles of the Constitution ;—and for 
that man who, in an address at Vincennes, in¬ 
veighed in the strongest terms against emanci¬ 
pationists, denouncing their claims as “ weak, 
presumptuous , and unconstitutional, and implored 
the citizens of the North-West to frown upon 
measures which must “ eradicate those feelings 
of attachment and affection between the citizens 
of all the States, which was produced by a 
community of interests and dangers in the war 
of the revolution,—which was. the foundation 
of our happy Union, and by a continuance ef 
which, it cun alone he preservedE In this ad¬ 
dress he contended that “ the people of the aou- 







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the from Banning Norton, in which he denounced 
all such sentiments of expediency advanced by 


slaveholding states are not warranted by 
Constitution in molding meetings and h:u- 
JJSHINU SPEECHES AGAINST THE DOMESTIC INSTK 
TtmoNs of the .south.”— lor that man who in 
1836, in a letter to Thos. Sloo, jr., of New Or¬ 
leans, Said 11 1 do not belive that Congress can 
abolish slavery in the States, or in any manner 
interfere with the property of the citizens in their 
slaves ,”—‘*1 do not believe that Congress can 
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, 
without the consent of Virginia and Maryland 
and the people of the District.” 

In the contest of 1844, with increased vigor 
and zeal, I canvassed and worked as an ( lector 
for tjie best abused man by Texian politicians 
and demagogues the noble patriot Henry Clay, 
the great-hearted commoner, who in the hour 
of darkest peril to Texian Independence, dona¬ 
ted to her cause from Ins own scanlv means, 
$1000 in hard money. In 1848, for Zachary 
Taylor, the immortal hero of Buena Vista; and 
iu 1852 for Winfield Scott, the gallant conque¬ 
ror of Vera Cruz, and the old chief who planted 
the star spangled banner on the walls of the 
city of the Montezumas. 

I'have watched closely and with a hostile 
eye, the progress of Abolition, from the day 
when the little speck was not larger than a 
man's hand, till the large black cloud has 
spread desolation and ruin upon our wide ex¬ 
tended country. 


the Doctor and declared that tlie \\ hig party 
was not dead as asserted by Mr. Browning, 
that it was founded in the immortal principles 

of protection and paper currency, taught by Clay, 
by Webster, by Adams, and by Hamilton, that 
although parties and organizations might 
change, their imperishable and immortal prin¬ 
ciples never would ; that they were the nucleus 
around which one m'llion four hundred thou¬ 
sand Whigs rallied at the last Presidential 
election. That he regarded Dr. Dyer’s resolu¬ 
tion, as a movement on the part of Mj. Brown¬ 
ings the Fredericktown clique and a tew others 
to sell the Whig party, ‘* body and breeches/” 
to the Abolitionists! That for bimaeri, be 
thanked God. that as a Knox eojfcjv Whig, and 
as an old line Henry Clay Whig, hc^ievir 
would get down on his knees to a'$k the A bolition 
\party who, in their pleasure, thejr^woind permi t 
Whigs to vote for. That he hated and con¬ 
temned the Abolition Party; that they had 
always reviled and execrated V hig leaders, that 
they had denounced “ old Zack," and abused, 
j villilied, and misreprented the gallant Henry 
Clay and that although they had aided the 
| Whigs to elect Hurd and Smith, and Farquhai* 
S and Windora, nevertheless they did so from feel- 
lings purely selfish : that their damnable designs 
, were now palpable from their efforts to swal- 


I opposed it when Samuel Morris, ex-demo- \ 
cratic U. S. Senator oi ’'Ohio, a native of the 
Old Dominion, was its national standard bear- j 
er,—when James G. Barney, the apostate son ! 
of the South was its chosen head,—when Mar- | 
tin Van Buren, the peculiar favori.e ct the I 
South as a democratic President, lead its col¬ 
umn,—when John P. Hale, the elected demo- i 
cratic U. S. Senator of New Hampshire, inar- ! 
shaded its hosts,—when John C. Fremont, an | 
other apostate son of South Carolina, almost 
achieved a victory,—and when Lincoln, a na¬ 
tive of Kentucky, lead the hordes of Black Ee-! 
publicans amid the ruins of our beloved coun¬ 
try, triumphantly to the National Capitol! | 
Throughout all its course 1 have ever stead¬ 
fastly and firmly opposed its onward march. 

That such was my conduct in Ohio, and that 
I enter* lined these views when a citizen of a 
free state and in the midst of the enemy, is 
true, and 1 will proceed to maintain it by the 
record* 

I now read sir, brief extracts from the papers 
“of the democratic party—and give you the tes- 
timc 1 y of men with whom I com bailed as 
strongly and as warmly as I have ever done 
with any in Texas. 

From the Democratic Banner, the organ of 
the Democracy of Knox county, Ohio, August 
23a, .1353, I extract from a two column arti¬ 
cle under the following caption: “The great 
war talk in the wigwam of the enemy! Attempt 
to sell out the 1 Old Line Whig* ’ to the Aboli¬ 
tionists !” 

“JL’he remarks of Doctor Dyer upon a motion, 
declaring it inexpedient to nominate a Whig 
ticket and recommending a fusion with the 
•Temperance alliance and “ Free-ooilers,” called 
forth a powerful and most withering pbillipic 


low up the Whig party; (Uiat thc-ir des gas 

were perfectly understood by old line Whigs ; 
that he abjured all affinity with them, and that 
he had sworn before bi3 God never to cohabit 
or have connection with Abolitionists! That lie 
hid sworn eternal hostility to ail parties, fac¬ 
tions and organizations, that were not Whigs ! 

That HE DENOUNCED THE TEMPERANCE ALLIANCE 

as a political organization, whose aim and ob¬ 
ject was to rule; that he had the means of 
proving it such; that he knew its leaders ; that 
they were men who made temperance a stalk¬ 
ing horse, under which they concealed their 
more damnable and profitable designs, and that 
in conclusion he called upon the Clay Wines 
to “Stick to the Ranks,” to “die with the har¬ 
ness on their backs !”— to prove themselves the 
“ old guard of the principles taught by Clay, 
by Adams, by Hamilton, and the “ worthies of 
’76,”—that the Whigs were not dead, but have 
been “ sleeping upon their arms,”—that they 
had but to arouse themselves, shake off the 
dew drops that glittered upon their garments, 
and come forth to battle and to victory.” # $ 
Another article 1 cite from the Democratic 
Banner as showing more conclusively the posi¬ 
tion I held in that State and also that main¬ 
tained by my friends: 

“ The. Fugitive Slave Ism'f 
“ Let it be borne in mind, that the Fugitive 
Slave Law was essentially a WHIG MEASURE 
—it was projected by Henry Clay, passed by a 
Whig Congress, and APPROVED BY A WHIG 
PRESIDENT, The Norton and Jones 

(Jones, my cousin was the U. S. Marshal of 
Ohio during the Taylor and Fillmore adminis¬ 
tration and executed and enforced that law 
faithfully during his terra of office,) Convention 
in this city, nominated a ticket composed chief- 






Jy of FUGITIVE SLA VE. LAW WHIGS, and 
the woolly beaded editor of the African organ 
The Times, declared in open convention, “ I do 
feel that we should insult the people of this 
Count// b/i forininy such a iick<t its this! ! ' w 
The editor of the same paper again closing a 
notice of another speech made by me—uses this 
language: 

“ Norton is a patriot, every inch of him, and 
has no love for the abolition traitors, who would 
rend this fair Union iuto a thousand atoms to 
gratify their unholy feelings.” ^ 

And again speaking of another Convention, 
held another year lie uses these words : 
r .* Fusi n Cat founded. 
t^'NES/.V'LETCHf.U, SAPP, AND HANNING NoR- 

1 „ Tin triumphant. 

The Silver Greys in the Lead. 

x •>'■ * • :: ' 

“ Jones and Norton publicly proclaimed that 
thev would support Whigs, and none but Whips, 
and that if frce-soilers were nominated, they 
would defeat than. This was no child’s threat. 
then meant it: naf, they not only meant it, but 
they have given proofs ot their sincerity. 

* -> They out-plan and out- 

mameuvre the Free Soilers : and every blow 
they have dealt, has been a death stroke. 

The Nort ri t-iumph is complete ; but the 
slyest, and to our taste, the richest lick Norton 
gave, was the front-face blow dealt Ben Smith 
[since then a Republican Representative], 
blacking both his eyes,.end fairly taking the 
wind out of bis puffy sites. Oily Gammon suf¬ 
fered some that's t rue, and Norton was fully re¬ 
venged on N'mith for giving the printing to the 
Times. They have nominated a ftUl-blooded, 
old line, stiff back W hig ticket. 

In 1848, I was one of the few men in the 
Buckeye State to rally around “Taylor with 
his 280 niggers.” and to manfully contend with 
the enemies of our rights—to contribute ot my 
means liberally to found presses ; and in that 
and'all other campaigns by my pen and upon 
the stump, I did all that one ot my humble 
ability and influence could do to sling, goad 
and crush Abolitionism. 

When Salmon P. Chase—the leading demo¬ 
crat of Ohio, and ex U. S. Senator, elected by 
democratic Aotes—the present Secretary of the 
Treasury under Mr. Lincoln, perigrinated the 
♦-state, in his various canvasses for abolition, I 
invariably and in every instance opposed him; 
and, sir, when he was fust nominated for Gov¬ 
ernor, 1 joined in the call for a mass meeting j 
of Whigs and Americans at the capitol ot the 
slate to devise means of accomplishing bis de¬ 
feat; ar.d that you may judge of the temper, 
tonefand spirit of the times and of those who 


‘•Mass Convention of the Whies and Am: it 
u: an Party c f Ohio.—Opposition to C has as 
and Fusion.— [fun. Allen Trimble nominal d f»r 
Governor. * . |* * * 

Hoa. Trad Kelly, of Cuyahoga, on taking the 
chair ;-tated the objects of the Convention. Us 
said, this is a Mass Convention ot these in the 
State of Ohio, who desire the nomination of 
honest man for Governor, (applause) a conven¬ 
tion of men who detire to vote tor a gentleman 
opposed to sectionalism in national politics, and iu 
favor of a State policy different f.om that ad¬ 
vocated by either of the parties already organ¬ 
ized.” 

On motion of Mr. Norton, a committee was 
appointed for the selection of permanent offf- 
! cers and for other purposes ; 

In discharge of their duty they reported the 
I names of John Davenport, of Belmont, the 
President and twenty-one Vice Presidents, add 
Secretaries, &c. From the address of Judge 
Davenport on takiag the chair, 1 take a brie f 
extract : 

“We cannot but consider that Lis (Chase) 
antecedents asr a politician render him entirely 
unlit for a high office at the hands of the peo¬ 
ple. We all remember the means by which he 
obtained and procured his election to fhe UnU 
ted States Senate, and that the whole Whig 
party of Ohio at the Lime denounced it as eor- ' 
rr.pt and unfair. But if that were all, we might 
.still be content to go to the polls and cast our 
suffrages for such other candidates as we could 
support, simply declining to vote for him. I 
know that in alluding to that genleman's past 
history and present position as a sectional agi¬ 
tator. and in pronouncing his election now aa 
endorsement of ideas and conduct dangerous 
to the existence of the nation, we shall be 
scoffed at and stigmatised by the cant term of 
■“ Union Savers.” 

We shall be sneered at lor saying that our 
reasons for so believing him, consist in the 
conviction that the principles and objects of 
that gentleman and his political friends cavmok 
be practically affected and carried on:, without 
imperiling the Union of these States. It is 
strange, lamentably strange, that we have fal¬ 
len upon tiiue3 so full of evil, that devotion to 
the permanency of this Republic is to be treat¬ 
ed with taunts, jeers and derision. But this 
j slate of public sentiment, if so it may be call- 
j i d, should only serve to quicken our effort^for 
the maintenance of our Union.” 

From the speech of Gen; /Stan berry, I extract 
tiie following; 

“He had only attended as a member of ’this 
Mass Convention to save, if he might aid in do¬ 
ing so, the* State of Ohio from the disgrace of 
electing an Abolition^Governor. According 
to the morals and manners of certain parties 
in these degenerate times, said Mr, 8., it seems 
that the word “patriotism” had come to mean 
merely “hatred of the|^3outh.” H#--"Spurned 
the unworthy thought. 

What had caused this infatuation of Aboli¬ 
tionism in inculcating the sentiments of sec¬ 
tional ill-feeling bv which themselves were 
solelv animated? We owe much—wc of the 


f fanaticism. 1 would refer to the account oi I 
aid meeting in the Ohio “ Statesman,” the or- j 
•an of the democratic party of Ohio, edited and 
>ablished by Sam. Medary, “the wheel horse 
>f Ohio democracy,”—known to many of this 
)ody, and particularly to my friends from Bex- 
ir, (Mr. Waelder) and from Smith, (Mr. Hub¬ 
bard), who.sat under his ministrations as Fre- 
■ ident of the “National Democratic Convention 
it Cincinnati, in 1850.’ 









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North— very much, of all our boasted prosper- j Mr. N. pledged his unflagging efforts to the 


ity here to Southern labor, Southern money, 
Southern products, Southern trade and South¬ 
ern markets. We owe three-fourths of our 
flourishing, shipping interests to the cotton, 
,vng?r and tobacco of our Southern brethren. 


support of Hon. Allen Trimble, as the repre¬ 
sentative of the national views of the •‘Ameri¬ 
can partv, : ’ and their principles as enemies to 
the disunion tendencies of the Fusion nominee. 
Mr. N. pronounced the proceedings of the Fu- 
The institution of slavery is of no damage to I sion Convention an unprincipled bargain, <h*- 
V;S, but is the direct source of a large propor- signed to sell out the votes of the whole Amer- 
tien of all our Northern prosperity. Mr. Stan- j ioan party.” 

berry enlarged upon tlie evils which had fol- [ A State Central Committee was appointed 
lowed the mode of emancipation adopted in j consisting of twenty-one members, of which f 
the. West ladies. He could easily pardon the ! had the honor to be elected chairman, and ! at 


imputed transgressions of the South. They 
had these dire examples of the mistaken-policy 
and inflammatory zeal of Northern agitators 
before their eyes. They have reason to fear 


once issued an address to the electors of the 
State, from which I will present the following 
brief extract : In this connection however. I 
will further remark that my associates and co- 


their very existence as a people, if similar j workers in that- exciting campaign have to this 
schemes were pressed upon them. j day “ kept fbefaith”—as I am proud to say,that 

* * * '* | in the last Presidential election, the l r nV 

“At the close of his remarks, Mr. Nertoa [ticket in Ohio was headed by Allen Trimble 
firm the committee on Resolutions, reported as land John Davenport, as electors for the State 
follows: 1 ’ (I extract such as bear on national 
issues J 


at large. 

As chairman of the State Central Commit tee, 
I put forth a lengthy address, exhoning the 
people to rebuke sectionalism and abolitionism 
in the strongest terms at my command. I de¬ 
nounced Mr. Chase, and his taction, tor attempt¬ 
ing “to free tbje negro at the expense of the 
to tob the American citizen in ordfer 


Whereas : We believe that the period has 
arrived when all who cherish the permanence people to rebuk 
and integrity of the t'nion\ of our common 
country amt have a regard for the interests of 
g’-e State of Ohio, long an i so deeply injur 
e«i. should distinctly and solemnly announce! masters 
their wishes and opinions, therefore 1 to elevate others—for having repudiated Statu 

Resolved, That with reverential accord, we I politics and introducing the infbimm'atory. 

decent the admonition .of the Father of the j tiorr Of slavery .’ 1 And as peculiarly app ! ^ 
Country, to heir ere of sectional parties, and utter -. 1 to the state of parties at this time in Texas, 
]y repudiate, as unworthy the confidence of * lls well as throughout -the country, I make the 
the people of Ohio, the party inaugurated in * following short extract, to which I invite the 
our State, under the auspices of the Cohvcn- j prayerful attention of all 1 % enemies, and the 
lion of the 13th of July last, the great, ohj ct j foes of the Constitution and the Union. 

.tyhich Is to a:ray one se lion of our Ci.i.m : A Us nr d as is this course among ourselves. 

against the other.- j people of Ohio, it is far worse than mere folly 

Resolved, i hut since the organizutb n of our | in its effects upon this great Republic. . It is a 
a o-rnm UJt| b ( •}■ hd.i! - for Gov rnor ha' e deliberate cirliraii-.n, wi:hou ; the excuse of n»- 
been seteetbd^ ' ,|C repre.-euta'iv- tn n cl their! g 0! c difi r; aces, in a naConal elcrtion. of a- •■*- 
nd lliou' Tr *.«*•'^*fUit while Hon. Salmon | pasties, of voliiteul hatred, arid of social 


■ablo 


1 *. Cha-e may repvcfh 
Ohio, and lion. \'Ju: 
) h mocratf < i the Si a * 
farthest from unperson 
1 hat the lion. AH' n T; 


ill the Abo)i:i< ni.-t.s of l 
Medlli the Neb’rmka j 
. l oth e! them me tin 
tting ouopiliti al i leas: i 


It is doing purposely and exactly 
his country warned us 


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IV W of 


on. 


favorite (b»\ or 


Out ^Tue in l mes Wi/vi a thought, of di.* 
vmon vc 's u hOra ,/ <•'$ a crime < a in tn el 1 ■ • T v 
Character a ad truly au.l muly untdl^ef, is our 
choice for Governor of Ohio, and uv therefore 
nominate him ; - a candid,tft* for the office. 

r j lie u ad in a of the. resolutions was frequ 
V intorrupfed , loud 


j tlOt'O 

je tiler, 

what tire l uther 
attainsi. Suppose the demagogues successful 
:o trie utmost extent of their claims: suppose 
t! 


c.h*n ).’•>. V* ii«ui 
^wafi r od. proposing tue Maine of 3»o 
Trimble f >r Governor, the applause was mo 
enthusiastic and l<*tig continued, at th 


which the Rand was c id d on to play the 
Ipahglet 


em successful throughout the free States.— 
What then V Are you, patriots and lovers of 
vour country, seriously and really prepared for 
the issue which the Sumners, Chases and Wil¬ 
sons would make for you? Are you prepared 
,..fl to see the tree States engaged in deadly hes- 
h • la't! tility to the slave States, withou* any common 
Aden I grouud to stun i >. n, or any common mediator 
M j between them? Recollect, that on this issue 
close of | you will have no vote in the Slave states ; co 


Kn'uwW Buuner." which was given, and cheer-j no calm forum of public discus*w, 


iarkly nail 

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Are 


national party intermingling with the people; 

>n, but. there 

ul to the echo again and again. j will be these two sectional arrays, 

Addresses were then made by various gen- i an £ n T frowning upon cad, otner ! 
tlemen. who like ‘ Mr. CUVger, lampooned the! prepared for,this? Ar^you prepared to risk 
political character of Mr. Chase without men 
nurc.” I was the last speaker, ami the 1 ‘.States . 

' i I i r I nsA PT\(1 

man” gives the substance ot my remarks. 

This gentleman is thf leading editor of 


.his great RepubliCfOn the angry waves of a- 
sectiunal storm ! This 14 the sole issue which 
Mr. Chase and liis ecuteaerales have delibe- 
j‘at. !y made, and wo cannot avoid it if we" 
What may we conjecture is their ob- 




tb, Oo«li«->!al. iu-t ejublishcd in this city (in wouli V hot nnj we conjecture is their ob- 

opposition t. tbi eld Whig puper) as the argah l*et t 1 a*’*" 1 aml ' ton wl >‘: W 0 

of (lie iiirortniaible American party ol Ohio. I w » *>*«.» « » hvmwm mot.ve. 







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with which the mantle of charity tuny cover 
their conduct. No sectional President, not 
one, has yet been elected, and who can fathom 
ih^ consequence of such an event, if such should 
ever occur ? We turn with dread from the 
mere contemplation of such a scene, and trust 
we may avoid it by the virtue, good sense, and 
the patriotism of toe people.” 

How prophetic those words uttered in 1855 ! 

The Ides of March 1801, witnessed the inau¬ 
guration of the first “ sectional President.” 
“The wide, the unbounded future lies before 
us. 

But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest up¬ 
on it." 

‘ From this evidence (and I have much other 
that 1 could present, were it not for occupying 
too much ef vour time), I trust I have disa¬ 
bused the minds of any who may have been 
led to imbibe a prejudice against me by the 
vile attacks that have been made here to my 
injury. 

If cumulative evidence were necessary. 1 
need not refer to files <»f old papers publ'shid 
in other States sinfce I have upon this tloor in 
the person of the honorable representative from 
Orange, (Mr. Smith.) my tirst preceptor, who 
taught me my A B C>. end is*iiitimateiy ac¬ 
quainted with all of my family,*kno\vs their 
conservative course and is a present living wit- 
mss ol thiv correctness of my slat wienls. 

I stood .up for the rights cf the South, ar.d 
was denounced as a pro-slavery man in that 
country. I expended a handsome fortune in 
lighting the enemies of the Constitution at 
their own strongholds. 1 

“Bearded the lion in his den, 

The ‘Chase' in his hall.” 

I used ray pen, my tongue, my purse, in de- 
%Jj;nceof the Constitution and the Union. I 
stood up for the cause of the country where 
and when it required more nerve and backbone 
to maintain one’s po?i ion then I have ever 
known in Texas, evert in these troublous times. 

I was bred up, reared, rw Union man and a 
y Whig. That was the sin against the Holy 
Ghost for which 1 had to answ r. And, sir, 
when that party of sound principles was over¬ 
thrown, upon the passage of the Kansas bill— 
the secret blade of Joab to the South—when a 
change took place in one year in the political 
status of the electors of that State, of 108,000 
votes, and they had dived deep into the muddy 
pool of abolitionism, I shook the dust from oil 
my feet and determind to make my home and 
future abiding plate in this bright land ol pro¬ 
mise. During that last campaign, sir, I bad 
the honor of editing the Whig and American 
organ of ti e State. I was chairman of the last 
Whig (State Central Committee of that State ; 
a:id. sir, 1 may remark in this connection that 
inv father 1 . ■ 1 s- rv <1 in that •'<*4 ity, in the 
first Whig Committee, when Mr. Clay was first 
a candidate: and hence caii say, with truth, as 
did the great Irish orator, in his sad lamenta¬ 
tion ,—“1 have rocked the liberty of my coun¬ 
try in its cradle, and followed it:» hearse to the 
grave 1 ” 

In rnv last canA'ass in Ohio, sir, I hr<d the 
honor—I call it honor—-of having a stand from 


which I was addressing the people, torn down, 
and of having had a meeting, while I was 
speaking, attacked by an abolition mob, headed 
by Capt. Tom. Ford, the public printer of the 
present Black Republican Congress, at the 
home of John Sherman, their late candidate, 
for Speaker of the House,"and the recently 
elected U. S. Senator of the Black Republicans 
of Ohio. 

But. sir, the true men of Richland county, at 
my call, rallied and dispersed them, end gave 
me a hearing, about midnight of the Saturday 
night prior to the election, by the light of bon¬ 
fires upon the public square. Of all this, sir, 

1 have an account published in the Shield and 
Hanner , a democratic paper of that county, ed¬ 
ited and controlled by John 5', Glessner—to 
this day, to his praise l can say, sir, a gentle¬ 
man and a staunch National Democrat, if you 
can consider such to be nn advocate of the 
Breckinridge ticket at the last election ! 

Thus treated sir. by the advocates of tree 
soil and free speech in that vaunted land of 
freedom, 1 made sacrifice, sir, of .all I had and 
j left the country. 

The enquiry came to me, as it did to the t 
! God-like Daniel Webster, on another, in some j 
1 respects like occasion, when he exclaimed— 

“ Where shall 1 go?” And. sir. the linger of 
Hope pointed me to Texas ! And, I may say, 
it directed me to this land, and my mind turned 
I to it, because the name had ever been den: to 
my heart, tor around it were clustered mettso- 
j ries of the past, and recollections that I could 
! not efface. 

And here, sir, 1 will briefly refer to it, though 
it might ‘ bear the appearance of egotism:— 
yet in the peculiar position I occupy, where 
my reputation, my character, my standing, 
my life, and safety, and that of my wife and 
little ones are involved, 1 may be pardoned 
for so doing. When 1 lie Mexican invaders 
were about overpowering the feeble colonists 
; and the few soldiers of liberty in this, then re- 
! mote land—when the cry for help anrl succor 
was sent forth by Gen. Houston, and his brave 
i \ et suffering men, to the United States of the 
1 North—when from various quarters men, singly 
■ and in companies, were rushing to the Bone 
; .Star standard—then, sir. it was that my father, 

! in the very heart of Ohio, took up the cause of 
bleeding and poor Texas, and through his 
! means and instrumentality, sent to this land 
! men and arms—then it was there came full 
I company organized, armed and equipped to 
Ido service in your army. Notwithstanding l . 

1 S. Marshals were trying to prevent the violation 
cf the neutrality laws in that way, and with 
| their writs were in hunt of the friends of Texas 
I to arrest them, my father, sir, sent to your fields 
I free of expense and of cost to your government, 
i the Mount Vernon Ohio Volunteers— a corapa- 
i ny of wen—and assisted m sending others 

I—ibe-v performed services 1 heir full t%rm an I 
I were honorably discharged, us the records con¬ 
clusively prove, and the rolls of the company « 
show not a single ,ui set ter, although many ol 
1 ,hi nt died in service, and 1 do not at this day 
know of one of the number yet living- 'Of these 
facts, air, I now have in my hands the vouch- 

















vrs—the proofs. This disinterested bounty, 
sir, never asked any recompense. It was glory 
enough, and compensation enough, for him to 
know that freedom to Texas had be<yc won, and 
a new empire added to civilization. He sought 
no Day. He asked no praise from your govern¬ 
ment- The same service, sir, he performed du¬ 
ring the Mexican war, growing out of the an¬ 
nexation of Texas, as the roll of the Mount 
Vernon Guards in Mexico, and the gallant Col. 
Morgan, 11 ' who was wounded at Chepultepec, 
and his brave men who now survive, will tes¬ 
tify-: and, sir, he asked not a dime of remune¬ 
ration from the United States government for 
that. 

My father’s fortune thus spent in acquir¬ 
ing new fields for the extension of your insti¬ 
tutions and your people, monej' poured out like 
water in your cause—The blood of my kindred 
shed in your service, should at least have enti¬ 
tled me to some exemption from abuse, and 
given me some rights in this land. 

Your Legislature, sir, recompensed Captain 
Jack R. Everett, in an act passed at the 6 th 
session, appropriating over $4000 for getting 
up a company of volunteers, at Mobile, Alaba¬ 
ma. They paid the State of Georgia, at the 
same session, for arms furnished to the Geor¬ 
gia Battallfon. 

They have paid numberless others whom I 
might name, did I not wish to abbreviate my 
remarks as much as possible ; for, sir, I have 
the records to show all these things up. and 
that,-too, in their true colors; but, sir, they 
never paid lor the 6 t stand of arms furnished 
the Buckeye Guards—they never paid for the 
arms furrvshef: the Mt. Vernon Volunteers— 
they never paid lor money expended in their 
behalf-—they have not been called upon to do 
so, and they never will be. 

Is it not particularly worthy of comment 
that a humble individual like myself should be 
singled out, and abused, and ordered to “ be 
hung,’’ simply because of mv having had the 
hardihood to avow that 1 came to this State 
from Ohio—from a State that furnished more 
volunteers to Texas than any other State in 
the Union—that gave the lives of her citizens 
to purchase your liberties—that gave the “twin 
sisters.’’ the only cannon that spoke death to 
the invaders and oppressors at Saw Jacinto— 
that stood upon the vanguard of freedom in 
the past a descendant of one who coglribu- 
trd thousands to the achievement of your own 
independence? 

* George W. Morgan with his brother Capt. 
Thomas J. Morgan, brought a company of vol¬ 
unteers from Washington. Pennsylvania, who 
served during the Texiau revolution, lie left 
this service as a Captain. Me enter d the Mex¬ 
ican war as Captain of the Guards—was pro* 
incited to a Colonelcy—wounded at Chepnalte* 
^pec and as a Brevet Ur'gadier General at the 
close of the war, returned to his home in Ohio, 
from whence he was appointed by" President 
. Pierce to represent the U. >S. Government at 
the Court of Portugal -from whence he has 
now been re-culled by President Lincoln to 
make room for the Abolition orator Carl 
iSchurz, 


I came, as I may say, to your land as a vol¬ 
untary exile—as one banished by political pro¬ 
scription My record will satisfy any—the most 
incredulous—of this fact. 1 left as warm ami 
dear friends as any one ever did. and, sir, with 
no stain of abolitionism upon my garments, and 
as the still farther fact, that I left “under the 
tongue of good report,” I may state that ia the 
contest ot 1856, when 3000 miles awjw from 
my old home, the State Convention of my old 
party, sir. honored me with a position on the 
State electoral ticket of Fillmore and Donald¬ 
son—the Millard Fillmore who approved and 
executed the Fugitive Slave Law,—I then being 
as my friends from Smith (Messrs Hubbard and 
Lewter), from Orange (Mr. Smith), from Jas¬ 
per (Mr. Crawford), from Tyler (Mr. Ross), 
from Harrison (Messrs. Whitmore and Craig), 
from Shelby (Mr. Short), and other gentlemen 
well know, a citizen of the State of Texas, ad¬ 
vocating the unpopular Whig and American 
side, because I then believed it right; and. sir. 
I nevet falter or swerve from! what my own 
conscience indicates is right, though all the 
world stand against me in solid array. Some¬ 
times, sir, I give offence to my opponents by 
my bluntness and candor, but such is my na- 
j ture and I cannot luip it, and I would not if I 
j could. 

Whom sir. and how have T now offended / 1 

i have it is alleged, been guilty of issuing an ad- 
j dress urging the people, of Texas to calm and 
j prayerful deliberation before they separated 
from the Federal Union. Sentiments in that 
address are denounced as “rank Helper ism.” 

] and 1 am branded as an Abolitionist for being 
of the number of signers ot the same. The oth- 
j <*r s-gners to that- are all slaveholders—of the 
24.* a large number have never been upon free 
| soil in their lit* s, have been born and bred to 
| believe the institution of slavery of divine ori- 
! gin and have ever manfully defended it. Some 
j of the number have been in Texas as much as 
43 years — others natives of the toil, have never 
drawn a breath outside of its limits—and many 
of them have served her in trying times in the 
field as soldiers as well a? in the Council Cham¬ 
bers—one of the number, M j. Bogart, now 
alas, no more—a gallant soldier in the war of 
IS 12- - 

“He sleeps Lis Ust sleep, he lms fought his last 
battle. 

No sound shall awake him to glory again 1“ 

But Norton has-been singled out because for-, 
soot’i. he came from Ohio—and the address be¬ 
cause thereof, is “rank Hclperisin'’ and he and 
his associates are “abolitionists.” Most lame 
and impotent conclusion of most bigoted am: 
intolerant, judges whose honor and mercy 
eclipse their great prototypes of the thumb 
screw, rack and requisition ! ! 

Now. one word Mr. Speaker, in regard to 
| that add res «—the oi j clionable paragraphs .-o 
much denounced, are based and predicated 
upon an editorial wired appeared in the Demo¬ 
crat c/nd Planter, published at Columbia. Braz¬ 
oria county, which i now hold in my hand and 
would call special attention to it. 

* The 24 signers and the Union nr n stigma¬ 
tised as *‘Helperites“ and “Abolitionists” are 
interested in slaves to the number oi 480. 










“Kiazoria In Oie Convention. 

Tbe plan suggested for (ho approaching Con¬ 
vention, and which seems to meet with general 
consent, is nevertheless lor many reasons ob¬ 
jectionable. It is proposed that each county 
shall send twice as many delegates as she lias 
representatives, according to the last apportion¬ 
ment. It will be seen that this plan works 
very badly lor those counties having a large 
slave population, and which are really more in¬ 
terested in this Southern movement than any 
others. Take for example. Brazoria. This 
county has a lu r ger number of slaves in propor¬ 
tion to the whites than any other county m the 
state. It is by far the wealthiest county in the 
State in proportion to her population, ai.d as* 
fixation and representation ought in some de¬ 
gree to go together, it would seem,but'just and 
right that she should be represented in a cun- 
veutfon of this kind. But Although Brazoria 
county has a population of nearly eight thou¬ 
sand, white and colored, yet by the late appor¬ 
tionment, she is not allowed a representation. 
In connection with Galveston she is to elect a 
floater, who may, Galveston consenting, come 
from this county. It is the same way with the 
delegates to the convention. Galveston will 
probably be courteous enough to allow us ore 
delegate out of four lor the two counties. There 
will be counties having two delegates in the 
convention, which have not half as many slaves 
in the whole county as can be found on one 
plantation in Brazoria. To show the unfairness 
i d this plan still more clearly, let us take two 
other counties, Com 1 and Wharton. Comal 
county has 141 slaves, and is allowed two del- 
t gates in the Convention : Wharton county 
‘2730 slaves and will have no delegate in the 
Convention ! Now which is more interested in 
guarding and perpetuating the institution of 
slavery, the planting county of Wharton, or the 
Dutch county of Comal? The fact is the coast 
counties, and those having the largest slave 
population, are allowed tbe least voice in the 
matter. 


Commenting upon that as any man jealous of 
the righls of the people would do has excited 
much ire and indignation. It is denounced as 
*• rank Ilelperism/’ which I suppose is the most, 
damnable of all epithets that our enemies can 
use in these limes ol terrible words and furious 
raids, ot vigilance committees and committees 
of public safety. 1 know- not myself, what i*-< 

| full tenor is. since sir, 1 never have seen or read 
; the work of Helper from which this word has 
been coined, nor do I believe that any of those 
j who united with me in issuing that address to 
; the paople of Texas know anything more about 
it. 

To ail that appears in that address, sir. j did 
I and still do subsetibe, and to all such 1 hold 
! myself responsible, but 1 deny that any one 
can draw from that the inter nee that I am an 
j abolitionist or untrue to the South or her insti- 
| lotions, I am not sir. and God forbid that 1 ever 
l should he! In the soil of the South, on the bo¬ 
som of the beautiful Savannahs of the Attaka* 

; pas, the bones of an old soldier of the - Imcrieati 
• revolution, and of several of his family rest, 
I He sir. was the first American settler in all 
j that tin n foreign land. His sous rallied around 
| t he stars and stripes and followed the flag of the 
! Republic throughout the war of 1812—they 
contended tor the liberties of the country—and 
when disease and death came upon thorn and 
reduced their numbers, in after tine s they mi¬ 
grated to a colder clime—and cx-Gov. Henry 
(Johnson and li< n. John Moore, “ lronest John 
I Moored’ the old faithful member of Congress and 
j most prominent member of the secession con¬ 
vention of Louisiana, and others ot the earliest 
(settlers.of that country, can speak of them it 
terms it becomes not me to rehearse. It is not 
my purpose to pass any eulogy upon the dead 
ot my kindred, it does not become me to do so, 
but sir, when I am denounced as an "enemy to 
the South ’’ r.nd an *• abolitionist,*’ 1 may at 
leatfTcrave indulgence for this retrospect. And 
j .dr, having in my hands the records of their 
j loyally and devotion to your cause and yom 
; interests, I may be justified in referring to such 
in mv defence from a most ba$e and malicious. 


We know that a majority of the people'of 
Comal aud many other counties in tne State, 
tilled up with foreigners, cannot feel so deeply 
interested whether wc have a Black Republi¬ 
can President or not; whether or not shivery 
lie admitted into new territories; in short, 
whether Texas be a free or a slave State, but 
to swell counties as Brazoria, Wharton, Mata¬ 
gorda and Fort Bend ; these are matters of 
vital importance. 

But says one, t- we must submit to the voting 
majority.’’ Well, if this be so. let us talk no 
more of Northern aggression. Lincoln has been 
elected by the Northern hordes of abolitionists 
—by a voting majority. Upon the same prin¬ 
ciple we should submit to his election. 

We believe that every county in the State, 
should have at least one delegate in the Con¬ 
vention. Every State, no matter how email, is 
allowed one representative in Congress ; so in 
• ur Legislature, each county should bo repre¬ 
sented. 

It may be that the present plan is the best 
that could have been suggested ; we hope the 
rights^nd interests o-l all will be respected.” 


slander. » 

Those who have known me intimately, I am 
confident will give me cr dit for sincerity, can¬ 
dor and independence. As 1 have before said, 
it I have ever had any sin to answer for it.has 
been that of being a devoted friend of the Con¬ 
stitution aud the Union of my fathers—a whig 
—a Henry Clay whig. Alike in defeat and ad¬ 
versity as in prosperity. I clung to the banner 
of that party while it had an existence. 1 never 
bowed my knee to Baal—and I can prove by 
my bitterest opponents in the State from 
whence 1 came, ih-at I ever fought the abolition 
beasts at Ephesus. My political course in 
Texas is known to you all—I have had no con¬ 
cealments or disguises. 

J have been a zealous and ardent friend of 
that Union under which we had so greatly pros¬ 
pered as a people, until unmindful of its great 
blessings like Jeshurum of old, you have ‘-wax¬ 
ed fat and kicked.” 1 never like the double- 
faced Janus of the ancient heathens, bad one 
set of principles and ono course of action to and 
for the North and another to and for the South. 

I did not join with you in your unholy cru- 








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and present to the world the sad spectacle of 
the land of Washington being rent in twain by 
civil dissensions, and thrown into anarchy and 
confusion worse than that of Agramontes camp, 
when in one place they fought lor a sword, in 
another for a horse, in a third lor an eagle, in 
a fourth a helmet, in short all by the ears for 
they know not what. Madness rules the hour 
a nd bigotry, and intolerance have done this 
work— 

‘‘Shake not thy gory locks at me, 

Thou eau’st not say 1 did it! ? ’ 

True to the teachings of my youth, I have 
endeavored to stand by the old land marks ot 
the Constitution, and have labored to pre¬ 
vent the destruction of the Union. The slot in 
las threatened—the shock of battle has 
CO me—animated with the spirit ot the patriot 
Lawrence, when he exclaimed, “Never give up 
the ship,” I have stood at my posL-aud it may 
with truthfulness be said— 

“Faithful among flie faithless, 
Unmoved, unshaken, unsedue d. unterrified, 
His loyalty he kept, his zeal, his love, 

Nor numbers nor example with him wrought 
To swerve from truth, or change the steadfast 
purpose of bis mind ”— 

And now. sir, that the golden bowl lias been 
broken— the Union dissolved, and I am having 
hurled at me the charge of abolitionism, after I 
have been 'driven by the intolerance of the 
North to this sunny clime, after having been 
mobbed and pelted by abolitionists North, for 
maintaining firmly and steadfastly the princi¬ 
ples in which I was reared—and after having 
been denounced by extremists h«re, I may ejac¬ 
ulate in the words of my honorable friend from 
Gonzales, (Mr. Stewart.) “I should desire to 
hide myself in some secluded cave, in the lone" 
]y mountainside, where 1 could not witness my 
country’s desolation, or get rumor ot her dis¬ 
tracted state of commotion, civil wars, ruin, 
destruction, and final desolation,” 

Mr. Speaker, I crave pardon of the IIouso 
for having thus trespassed upon its attention— 
is occasion to refer to my ] but sir, 1 nave telt it due as well to the honor- 

| able members of this body, with whom I have 
Upon the question of love of country Fo man ; been pleasantly and kindly associated as to my- 

g e]f—due also*to my constituency, who have 
time and again honored me with their support, 
and I am satisfied would not now withhold from 
me their approval and confidence, for which I 
shall ever feel grateful—due to the people of 
Texas, with many of whom although differing 
from me politically, I have been agreeably as¬ 
sociated—due to ,111 y family, some of whom are 
natives of the country—all of whom will in all 


mde against what I had been taught from my 
earliest youth to regard as sacred. I could not 
find it in my heart to do so. And while I might 
like many others have, remained silent and 
have permitted the election upon secession to 
have gone by default, l could not do violence j 
to my nature and my well defined views of j 
right by so doing, but preferred to speak and j 
write and do all in my power in opposition to i 
the movement. For this action I have been j 
with many far better ^men. denounced in un- i 
measured'terms, and epithets have been buried j 
at us with such rancor Hand deadly hate that I j 
have almost wonder, d it some of those thus be- I 
rating us had not lost their reason and were not 
entirely destitute of souls. I have also been I 
lead at times to believe when the natives ol cloud has threatened 
Texas and of the South—the adopted citizens, 
the old soldiers of San Jacinto—the old settlers 
of Austin colony—the pioneers of civilization 
and liberty in this Western land, whose hearts 
like mine ‘ kept time to the music of the Con¬ 
stitution and the Union,” have been in like 
manner unsparingly denounced that the epithets 
in these degenerate days had become terms of 
honor and lost all their opprobrium ! 

Mr. Speaker, 1 did not rise to argue, to ani¬ 
madvert, to-criminate, or to recriminate, but 
sir. simply to do justice to you by having it 
known, that you have not in associating with 
me in this Hall, been less jealous ef your honor 
lhan were the members ot the Gih Legislature 
by whom measures were taken to get rid of a 
member at whose door not half such obnoxious 
charges were laid as at mine—I-allude to Hon. 

Lorenzo Sherwood, Demcrat, of Galveston. 

The fact, sir, that up to this time the last day 
but one of the session, no allusion has bpon made 
to the subject by any member upon this floor, is 
I take it, pretty fair evidence that you have not 
yourselves had any confidence in the report of j 
abolitionism circulated by the malicious among j 
the secession press of the State against me. and 
it. is to enable you to say with truth that I oiu i 
•“sound as a dollar” upon this vexed question | 
that I have taken 
record. 


shall surpass me, as I have allowed none to ex¬ 
cel me in the past in devotion to the Union. 

Identified with this country, its interests are 
mine—and with its policy as marked out by a 
legal majority. I will expect to be controlled 
as must bo every other good citizen. 1 have 
never sought to be with a majority—I .cannot 
change my nature I never will give up my 
own convinctions of right for popular favor. I 
have been generally in the minority and such i human probability.mingle their dust with that 
may be my lot upon political questions j of mine in the soil of Tejsas 1 
uture. But no man will \ In their defence, and in u 


that may arise in future 
more fervently pray for the general prosperity 
ci the people and the welfare of the State with 
which he is identified than the one who now 
addresses you. 

The glorious Union has been dissolved, and 
civil war with all its dread results will come 
upon this land—and we shall see its proud and 
haughty freemen transformed from brothers 
into demons, instead of rejoicing over the gen* 
eral prosperity and happiness, with fiendish de¬ 
light tear dowu and destroy the great 
©date bequeathed us by a glorious ancestry. 


my own vindication, 
I have made these remarks, and sir, I denounce 
the charge made against mo as false, slanderous, 
malicious , dastardly—and whoever may hereaf¬ 
ter give circulation or utterance to it is a wil¬ 
ful and deliberate liar and cowardly cal- 1 
umniator. 

The poisoned arrows of vile and abandoned 
slanderers will fall harmless at my feet—and with 
“mens consciti sibi recti ,” I bid defiance to the 
beagles, and blood hounds who have attempted 
with a ferocity hitherto unparalled in political 
warfare to hunt mo down. 



































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